silence7M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.English · 10 months agoHalving reliance on meat and dairy could cut land-use emissions ‘by 31%’lockwww.carbonbrief.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1164arrow-down115cross-posted to: green@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1149arrow-down1external-linkHalving reliance on meat and dairy could cut land-use emissions ‘by 31%’lockwww.carbonbrief.orgsilence7M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.English · 10 months agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: green@lemmy.ml
minus-squareburntbutterbiscuits@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down29·10 months agoThe amount of change we would all need to do is so immense I don’t think it’s fathomable. Me choosing not to eat meat even if I stopped completely and went vegan would not do a damn thing. I don’t believe the problem is a matter of personal choices, it’s a much larger scale. You and all your friends becoming vegan doesn’t do shit. It’s laughable.
minus-squaresilence7OPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up34arrow-down2·10 months agoPeople engage in individual action as a means of demonstrating that collective action is possible. Nobody is expecting individual action on its own to suffice; it takes changing the rules of society so that everybody is doing the right thing.
The amount of change we would all need to do is so immense I don’t think it’s fathomable.
Me choosing not to eat meat even if I stopped completely and went vegan would not do a damn thing.
I don’t believe the problem is a matter of personal choices, it’s a much larger scale.
You and all your friends becoming vegan doesn’t do shit. It’s laughable.
People engage in individual action as a means of demonstrating that collective action is possible. Nobody is expecting individual action on its own to suffice; it takes changing the rules of society so that everybody is doing the right thing.